Barber&#39;s taper books



July 10, 1956 A. BoNGlovANNl 2,753,988

BARBERS TAPER BOOKS Filed Deo. 20, 1954 BARBERS TAPER BOOKS Antonio Bongiovanni, Philadelphia, Pa., assignor of forty-nine per cent to Joseph Marcelline, Philadelphia, Pa.

Application December 20, 1954, Serial No. 476,152

2 Claims. (Cl. 20G-29) This invention relates to an improved taper book for barbers.

As is well known, barbers use a small wax taper to provide a flame for singeing hair. These tapers are of small diameter, are easily crooked, are easily mutilated, and are much inclined to bend and get out of shape when subjected to heat, such as the temperature of a warm room.

The present invention therefore has as one of its objects to provide a packet of tapers in book form similar to conventional match books, wherein the tapers will be supported and held straight substantially throughout their length, wherein the tapers will be protected against accidental injury, and wherein each taper will be provided with a match head, so that the tapers may be removed one by one from the book and conveniently lighted.

A further object of the invention is to provide a match book embodying a holder card for carrying the tapers of the book, wherein said card will be provided with a number of pockets, one for each of the tapers, wherein the pockets will each be formed with tongues disposed to touch the taper therein at longitudinally spaced points only, so that the conduction of heat from the card to the taper will be correspondingly minimized while also, oil from the wax of the taper will likewise be correspondingly prevented from soaking into the card at the margins of the pocket to render the card greasy, and wherein the tongues of each pocket will be so disposed as to provide air channels at opposite sides of the taper in the pocket, so that the tapers will be kept as cool as practicable.

And the invention has, as a still further object, to provide a taper bo-ok which will be structurally simple and feasible of economical manufacture.

Other and incidental objects will appear as the description of the invention proceeds, and in the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved taper book.

Figure 2 Figure 3 ure l.

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Figure 5 is a transverse section on the line 5 5 of Figure l.

Figure 6 is a detail elevation of the card holder.

Figure 7 is an enlarged, fragmentary, transverse section particularly showing the taper pockets of the card.

Figure S is an enlarged, fragmentary elevation particularly showing the tongues of the taper pockets.

in carrying the invention into effect, I employ a rectangular holder card 10. This card is composed of two plies 11 and 12 of suitable cardboard or the like arranged flat against each other in registering relation, and formed in said plies are pairs of oppositely disposed zigzag slots 13 extending from the upper edge of the card to a point near the lower edge thereof. The pairs of slots are spaced transversely of the card, and the slots is an edge elevation of the book. is a vertical section on the line 3-3 of Figis a vertical section on the line 4-4 of Figf nited States Patent fr a 1C@ of each pair terminate at their lower ends in registering apertures which provide an opening 14.

Considering now a typical pair of the slots 13, it will be seen, as best shown in Figures 7 and 8 of the draw-- ings, that the slot in the ply 11 of the card 10 defines, at each edge of the slot, a series of V-shaped tongues 15 extending longitudinally of the slot, while the tongues at one edge of the slot are staggered with respect to the tongues at the other edge of the slot. Similarly, the slot in the ply 12 of the card defines like series of V-shaped tongues 16, the tongues of one series of which are staggered with respect to the tongues of the other series.

It is now to be noted that the tongues 15 of a typical pair of the slots 13 are deflected to project at their free ends laterally away from the card 10 at the adjacent side thereof, while the tongues 16 of said pair of slots are deilected to project at their free ends laterally away from the card at its opposite side. The deflected tongues 15 and 16 of the typical pair of slots 13 thus cooperate to provide a pocket 17 extending the length of the slots. Further, the tongues at one side of the pocket in the plane of the card diverge to provide an air channel 18 extending longitudinally of the pocket, while the tongues at the opposite side of the pocket diverge to provide a like air channel 19, each of said channels being ventilated at the spaces between the tongues thereof. The cardboard employed is more or less flexible, and the tongues 15 and 16 are therefore somewhat yieldable as well as somewhat resilient.

The pockets 17 of the card 10 are disposed in parallel relation, and the card may be of any approved width to accommodate a chosen number of pockets. Between the pockets, the plies 11 and 12 of the card are adhesively or otherwise secured together to provide solid separating strips Ztl, while at the vertical margins of the card, said plies are likewise secured together to provide solid side strips 21. Further, the plies 11 and 12 are adhesively or otherwise secured together at their lower margins to provide a relatively wide bottom strip 22. Extending transversely across the strip 22 from the openings 14 at one side of the card 10 are parallel grooves 23 adapted to facilitate the bending of the strip transversely in alignment with any one of the pockets 17.

Disposed within the pockets 17 to project at their lower ends into the openings 14 are cylindrical wax match tapers 24. These tapers are of the kind usually employed oy barbers when singeing hair, but in accordance with the present invention are provided at their upper ends with match heads 25. The manner in which the heads are applied as well as how the substance of the heads is prevented from becoming impregnated with oil or grease from the wax of the tapers, so that the heads would not strike and ignite, does not concern the present improvements.

As will be observed, the tapers 24 are yieldably gripped between the tongues 1S and 16 of the pockets 17 and are thus held in place and supported substantially throughout their length. Furthermore, as the tongues touch the tapers only at the tip portions of the tongues, grease from the wax of the tapers will be retarded from soaking into the separating strips 20, while Ventilation for the tapers will be provided by the air channels 1S and 19. In the present instance, I have shown the card 10 as of a height to extend nearly to the match heads 25, but if so desired, the height of the card may be increased to extend even closer to said heads. Preferably, a warm iron or the like is lightly applied against the bottom strip 22 of the card over the row of openings 14 just long enough to melt the lower ends of the tapers 24 suiciently to form splayed knobs 26 thereon within said openings. As will be appreciated, these knobs will coact with the walls of the openings for removably anchoring the tapers at their lower ends and preventing outward endwise slippage of the tapers.

The holder card 10 with the tapers 24 installed thereon is assembled with a cover 27 therefor of suitabie paper. Near one end, the cover is folded to provide a channel 2S which receives the bottom strip 22 of the card, and extending through the front and rear walls of said channel and through said strip are staples 29 or the like securing the cover in'position. The front wall of the channel 23 terminates in a lip 30, and the free end of the cover 27 is normally engaged behind said lip for protecting the card and tapers. Suitably secured to the front wali of the channel 28 or otherwise imposed thereon is a scratch patch Si of such character that when the head 25 of any one or the tapers 24 is rubbed thereagainst, said head Wiil be ignited for lighting the taper.

As wiil now be seen, a barber having one of the books may, after opening the cover 2.7 at its free end, remove any one of the tapers 24 by pulling upwardly thereon, when the taper may be conveniently lighted. However, should the knob 26 of the taper unduly resist upward puil on the taper, the channel 26 of the cover along with the bottom strip 22 of the card i0 may be exed transversely at the area of that one of the grooves 23 below the lower end of the taper. The grip between the knob and the wall of said opening will accordingly be broken and the taper freed for upward movement.

Having thus described my invention, l claim:

1. in a taper book, a holder card composed of mating plies secured together and each having slots therein, the siots of one ply being disposed opposite the slots of the other ply to provide pairs of said slots forming pockets each provided at each edge thereof with diverging tongues, the card being formed at the lower ends of said pockets with openings, and wax tapers removably disposed in said pockets and gripped between the diverging tongues thereof to be supported by said tongues on the card, the lower ends of said tapers being disposed in said openings and formed with knobs coaeting with the walls of the openings for anchoring the tapers in said pockets.

2. in a taper book, a holder card composed of mating plies each having zigzag slots therein, the slots of one ply being disposed opposite the slots of the other ply to provide pairs of said slots forming elongated pockets each having diverging V-shaped tongues extending from the longitudinal edges of the pocket, said plies being secured together between the pockets to provide solid separating strips and at corresponding edge portions of the card to provide solid side strips as well as at one end of the card to provide a solid bottom strip, and wax tapers removably disposed in said pockets and gripped between the diver-ging tongues thereof to be supported by said tongues on the card.

References Cited in the le of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,105,842 Pindell Ian. 18, 1938 2,246,427 Wilton June 17, 1941 2,477,194 Millard .luly 26, 1949 FOREIGN PATENTS 466,214 Italy Oct. 23, 1951 

